Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp - Tom Tromey
- talk
- https://ftp.fau.de/fosdem/2020/UD2.119/emacsthoughts.webm
- speaker
- Tom Tromey
- tags
- Emacs, Emacs Lisp
Several competing ideas and their problems
- Guile Emacs
- Scheme is not Emacs Lisp! Impedance mismatch – largely solved by
Guile Scheme, at the expense of Guile not being a proper Scheme
- Scripting fragmentation (rather than have)
- Rebase on Common Lisp
- Experiment in 2012, an attempt to unify the type systems
- Impedance mismatch, hard to maintain
Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp!